'Only 1 in every 20 engg grads suitable for IT product job'

ET Bureau|

Aug 18, 2010, 02.53 AM IST

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MCA students were better placed among engg grads.

NEW DELHI: Three out of every five students that graduate from the country’s engineering institutes need to go through further training to be eligible for any job in the IT/ITeS sector, says a study by a local talent assessment firm.

It said just one in every 20 engineering graduates are fit for a job in an IT product company, while only one in five was fit to work with an IT services provider. The study by Gurgaon-based firm Aspiring Minds highlighted the need for improving training of students to make them employable.

The report tried to use actual candidate quality measurements and industry recruitment benchmarks to create a measure for employability, said Aspiring Minds co-founder Himanshu Aggarwal.

The employability study that covered over 40,000 engineering graduates and post graduates in Computer Applications, was based on the results of a standardised computer-based test called AMCAT taken by the engineering students across the country.

AMCAT covered various objective parameters for adjudging employability in the IT/ITeS sector including English communication besides quantitative, problem-solving and programming skills. While employability of students for BPOs and technical support jobs (TSJ) are relatively better at 38.23% and 25.88% respectively, companies in the knowledge based segment or Knowledge Processing Outsourcing (KPOs) find only one in every ten technical graduates employable.

The report also highlighted that MCA students are relatively better placed among the engineering graduates for finding a job in the IT sector as they possess superior computer programming skills but there is a need to improve their English language and quantitative ability skills, the report added.